FOIA to SBA regarding Administrator McMahon speaking at the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry event on September 13, 2017, at the Trump International Hotel Washington, DC.

Emails obtained by American Oversight via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that Ivanka Trump used a personal email address to conduct substantive government work as late as March 2017.

Guidance or emails relating to events at Trump properties or reimbursements paid to employees for expenses at Trump properties; records of the total cost of payments or reimbursements for expenses at Trump properties.

Calendar entries, records of costs or expenses, and correspondence related to any visits by Administrator McMahon to Trump properties. (SBA-17-0278)

No records response from SBA to our request for ethics waivers provided to political appointees, and that it provided no records in response to the Office of Government Ethics' request for information in early 2017.

No records response from SBA stating it had had no records responsive to the request of government ethics waivers given to appointees.

American Oversight today sued to obtain emails from the time period at the start of the Trump administration during which Ivanka Trump advised the president and offered input to executive agencies but refused to become a government employee subject to ethics rules.

Complaint filed by American Oversight against the Departments of Commerce, Education, Treasury, Labor, and the Small Business Administration for communications with Ivanka Trump.

FOIA seeking records identifying new political appointees working at the agency, including resumes as well as any ethics or conflict of interest waivers or authorizations.